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Tate County, MS jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Tate County’s unemployment rate is 3.1%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 11 open professional jobs are in its cities.

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Tate County economy

  • 3.1%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    4.0% the month before

  • 12,088

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 28,135

    people in Tate County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $63,995

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 30%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Tate County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Tate County in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

All layoff notices in the state

Employers hiring most in Tate County

Employers with the most open professional roles in this county’s cities. The county is taken from each job’s city, so roles with no city are not counted.

  1. Northwest Mississippi Community College9 open roles
  2. ABB1 open role
  3. Visit our1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Tate County. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

  • Mississippi Partnership Workforce Investment Area

    Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, De Soto, Grenada, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Lowndes, Marshall, Monroe, Montgomery, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tate, Tippah, Tishomingo, Union, Webster, Winston, Yalobusha

Cities in Tate County

Other Mississippi counties

All of Mississippi

Laid off or looking for work in Tate County?

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See your options after a layoff

Sources: Census Bureau and BLS (county unemployment is not seasonally adjusted); WARN notices from Mississippi’s published record; job counts from our live job board; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers.